When you have your health…

I used to wonder what people meant when they said, “When you have your health you have just about everything.” That was a long, long time ago before the ravages of age and disease had hit close to home.

Older and wiser now, I see my family is very much a microcosm of a typical American family in our experience with health care and disease. Within our extended family, we have experienced nearly all the major killers and some of the more obscure health conditions.

Through it all, most of us have had access to health care insurance. That is less typical. Even my natural father, an itinerant artist, had veteran’s benefits to cover his hospitalization when he died from a head injury at age 46, as a result of a motorcycle accident.

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